Home Office

NHS: Migrant Workers

Chris Bryant: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of non-UK EU citizens working in the NHS in (a) Wales, (b) Northern Ireland and (c) Scotland.

Caroline Nokes: Statistics on the number of people in the NHS workforce for Wales are the responsibility of the Welsh government and are published at http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/staff-directly-employed-nhs/?lang=en Statistics on numbers of people directly employed in health & social care (HSC) staff in Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department of Health and are published at https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/articles/staff-numbers Statistics on the number of people in the NHS workforce for Scotland are the responsibility of the Scottish government and are published at http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/

Radicalism

Mr Roger Godsiff: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her Written Statement of 12 July 2017 HCWS39, on extremism, whether the Government plans to review its policy on arms exports to Saudi Arabia as a result of her Department's review.

Victoria Atkins: The Government has no intention of reviewing its policy on arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the findings of the review into funding of Islamist extremist activity in the UK do not support one.

Female Genital Mutilation and Forced Marriage: Southwark

Ms Harriet Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of children under the age of 18 living in the London Borough of Southwark who have (a) undergone female genital mutilation in the UK, (b) undergone female genital mutilation abroad and (c) been subjected to a forced marriage in each of the last five years.

Victoria Atkins: So called 'honour-based' violence, including Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage, is a terrible form of abuse, and this Government is clear that we will not allow political or cultural sensitivities to get in the way of tackling it. Work to tackle these crimes is an integral part of our cross-Government Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy, published last year. The NHS FGM Enhanced Dataset provides information on the number of women and girls with FGM who are being cared for by the NHS in England and has been published quarterly and annually by NHS Digital since 2014. A detailed breakdown of these statistics by local authority, age at which FGM was carried out and country where FGM was undertaken is available online at http://content.digital.nhs.uk/fgm. The joint Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Home Office Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) operates a public helpline to provide advice and support to victims of forced marriage as well as to professionals dealing with cases. Statistics on the number of cases dealt with by the FMU are published annually, including a breakdown by region and age and are available online at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/forced-marriage#statistics-on-forced-marriage-collected-by-fmu. The statistics are available for the region of London. However, they cannot be broken down into specific London boroughs for data protection reasons. For example, the number of cases from a specific borough may be low enough to allow a victim to be identified, and the FMU must safeguard those it supports.

Proof of Identity: South East

Cat Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people born on 3 May 2000 or earlier are in possession of a police identification card registered in (a) Woking, (b) Gosport, (c) Bromley or (d) Watford local authority who are aged (i) under 24, (ii) 25 to 49, (iii) 50 to 64 and (iv) 65 or older.

Mr Nick Hurd: The Home Office does not hold a record of the data requested. Information requests on Police Identification Cards should be raised with the appropriate police force or with the appropriate directly elected Police and Crime Commissioner for that force.

Business: Crime

Steve McCabe: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of the different categories of crime to UK businesses.

Victoria Atkins: The Government recognises that crime against businesses causes damage and disruption to those businesses as well as having a negative impact on their customers and the wider community. However, we do not routinely collect data on the costs of different types of crimes to different types of businesses. We do have assessments of the costs of crime to the retail sector provided by our partners on the National Retail Crime Steering Group. For example, the British Retail Consortium has estimated that the direct financial cost of crime to the UK retail industry was £700 million in 2016-17. It estimated that the cost of customer theft was £503 million and the cost of fraud against the sector was £155 million.

Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Recruitment

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of successful Civil Service Fast Stream applicants were from (a) each of the nine English regions, (b) Northern Ireland, (c) Scotland and (d) Wales in each financial year since 2013.

Oliver Dowden: Fast Stream data relating to the 2017 and 2018 intake is currently being processed. The Fast Stream and Early Talent Annual report 2017 will be published later this year.

Universal Credit: Proof of Identity

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify to access universal credit has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify for Vehicle Operator Licensing has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify for Digital mortgaging has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify to access their Personal Tax Account has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify to check their income tax has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify to report a medical condition that affects their driving has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify to renew a short term medical driving licence has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify to check their state pension has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify to view or share driving licence information has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify to help friends or family with their tax has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify for tax self-assessment has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify to complete rural payment applications has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify for PAYE for employees: company car tax has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify for Tax Credits has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, PAYE for employees: company car tax what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify to claim a tax refund has been in each month since July 2016.

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify for marriage allowances has been in each month since July 2016.

Oliver Dowden: It is the policy of GOV.UK Verify not to track individual users, including the services which they access. Building a model that respects privacy is essential if users are to place and maintain their trust in identity assurance.PQ 8509 relates to verified user identities. ‘Success’ in the context of verified user identities is measured as the percentage of people with a verified identity who are then ‘matched’ with the departmental service they are attempting to access. The matching rates vary for each service depending on the data held and the matching needs of that service. For some services, for example Universal Credit, it is required that the user must match an existing record within the service. This is not required for all services, as the user may not previously have accessed that service, for example claiming for redundancy payments.

Electronic Government: Proof of Identity

Jon Trickett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify to claim for redundancy payments has been in each month since July 2016.

Oliver Dowden: It is the policy of GOV.UK Verify not to track individual users, including the services which they access. Building a model that respects privacy is essential if users are to place and maintain their trust in identity assurance.PQ 8509 relates to verified user identities. ‘Success’ in the context of verified user identities is measured as the percentage of people with a verified identity who are then ‘matched’ with the departmental service they are attempting to access. The matching rates vary for each service depending on the data held and the matching needs of that service. For some services, for example Universal Credit, it is required that the user must match an existing record within the service. This is not required for all services, as the user may not previously have accessed that service, for example claiming for redundancy payments.